Trump nominates State official to replace Kari Lake at VOA parent agency
Source: The Hill
03/12/26 7:02 PM ET
President Trump on Thursday nominated a State Department official to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Voice of America (VOA), after a judge ruled Kari Lake was unlawfully running the agency as its acting CEO.
The president tapped Sarah B. Rogers, undersecretary of State for public diplomacy, as USAGM’s Senate-approved CEO. If approved, Rogers would replace current acting CEO Michael Rigas.
Rogers, in her current role, oversees the State Department’s “educational and cultural affairs office, so things like the Fulbright Scholarship, all of those traditional soft power domains,” she told Semafor in January. “And also, and critically, the public diplomacy undersecretary has historically been the home of all of the information environment engagement,” she said. “So when we were doing the ‘disinformation censorship,’ all of that internet ecosystem stuff falls under me.”
Rogers previously represented the National Rifle Association (NRA) in its 2024 case before the Supreme Court challenging the New York Department of Financial Services for attempting to sway financial institutions away from doing business with the NRA. The court unanimously sided with the NRA, saying the conduct violated the First Amendment.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5781784-trump-nominates-state-official-to-replace-kari-lake-at-voa-parent-agency/
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